How many can bring them to life for us as Rathin Mitra has done? His gentle sketches have the details of a professional blueprint, the art of a skilled painting, and lyricism of a poem. His each drawing is artistically rigorous and yet like a sonnet, has a soul.

The Temples of Garhwal book attempts to bring the tourist and the pilgrim closer to the heritage, culture and history of this region, Sri Rathin Mitra through his most intricate line drawings has done great service to both religion and archaeology.

Our appreciation and thanks to the renowned (Pen and Ink - Line Drawing) artist and a son of Bengal, Sri Rathin Mitra for his great contribution.

Rathin Mitra is one of the most prominent artists of our times. His pen and ink sketches give the viewer an idea of the visual grandeur of the important buildings of the university of Calcutta.

Rathin Mitra' s outstanding sketches of Calcutta captured the "spirit" of a place. One gets an Indian feeling of the scene.

Mr. Rathin Mitra is an artist of great, eminence. He has earned a place in art circles and social history, with his wonderful sketches.

He is an untiring worker and his production is prolific. Rathin Mitra is an artist of conviction and is not to be easily swayed by any pseudo abstractionist verbiage. There lies his integrity.

Personally I like Rathin Mitra's work immensely. He is without doubt a great teacher. And in schools it is good teachers that we so need.

Our debt to Mr. Rathin Mitra for making the school Art conscious is great. Mr. Mitra's enthusiasm- has inspired many of our children and the reaches are of very creditable standard.

Rathin Mitra's paintings always makes one aware that there is more than one way of looking at things. So many artists tear their hair and tear their pictures until they achieve something which they then consider the one and only truth. Not so Rathin. When he had painted a scene in one way and is - quite rightly - pleased with it, he promptly wants to experiment which it in another form ....